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hello MDK

I come before you to ask a question regarding a discussion I had with a fellow player about outfitting certain wargear on Tau FW Vre for a certain effect.
Among the folks in the FLGS there was a mixed opinion so we all agreed that turning the question to be answered here was the best choice.

Forgive me if this ends up being a very basic thing....most of us are pretty new to 40K since the first shop in our city opened heh.....Ok enough gilding the lily

Suppose one was to outfit a firewarrior (Vre) with a hard wired multi tracker to make use of his (or possibly her? fluff?) markerlight and pulse rifle in the same turn.
Adding in addition a hard wired target lock.

Now the situation follows: FW team A encounters enemy A and moves to engage but wants to assist the FW team B who has moved to engage enemy B.
Team A Vre wants to use his target lock to place a markerlight on enemy B to support FW team B's BS skill, then resume firing at enemy A with the rest of his own unit to help increase VOF.

Now my question: is this a legal move?

If so please allow me to deviate away from the topic and ask a question that should be placed in tactics but: "do you use said method to support fire teams with different but close objectives?"

You make the call

thank you for your time, it is appreciated


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Looking back it may have been easier to just say:

"Can he shoot weapon 1 at target A and weapon 2 at target B"

sorry for over complicating

No, the Target lock simply allows you to have that model fire at a different target that the rest of the squad not a different target per weapon. I believe you could fire both your pulse rifle and markerlight at target B due to the Multi tracker but you would be unable to split those shots.

unfortunately, the model must always fire all weapons at the same target. he is allowed, however, to fire both his weapons at target B.

Edit: ninja'd again

Thank you both for the very quick reply.

that combo seemed a bit too good to be true...

Thanks again

Hans_Einberg wrote:
Now the situation follows: FW team A encounters enemy A and moves to engage but wants to assist the FW team B who has moved to engage enemy B.

Well they aren't doing any markerlighting then, it's a heavy weapon.

The other thing to warn you about, is that taking the Multi-tracker on a Firewarrior doesn't actually do anything.

The multitracker's effect is this, "It enables the model to fire two battlesuit weapon systems in the same turn."

Since battlesuit weapon systems is actually a defined column of wargear on page 25, and neither pulse rifles nor markerlights are listed, it is a waste of 5 points.

@Lone Dragoon: That's been FAQed to be "...fire two weapons in the same turn." But the point still stands that you can't shoot at two different targets with the same model (Otherwise: Crisis suits FTW!).

However, a quick question for the rest of you along this line of inquiry: If the 'vre shoots target B while the squad shoots target A, if the Tau player were to suffer an aneurysm and order the squad to assault, would the only valid assault target be A or B, or can they assault at all? I suspect A, but I'm not 100% sure :/

they would be able to assault either.

sadly this is not thecase and they can onlyassault the shooting target.

unless the other unit that wasnt shot at is within 2"in which case tey can declare an assault on the shot unit,and move subsequent modals to assault the others,so long as they stay in coherency,as per ASSAULTING MULTIPLE UNITS,pg 34 of rules

Well which one is it Deadshot, you wrote it twice? Try double checking your post before you click 'submit' to see if it makes any sense.

I would say that they have to assault the unit that the whole unit shot at. The sergeant is granted a specific exception to shooting from the rest of the unit, so I would think that his shot towards a separate target, granted by wargear, would not factor into 'which unit does the unit get to assault'.